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diff --git a/Announcement.txt b/Announcement.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 521dd71..0000000 --- a/Announcement.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,187 +0,0 @@ -__COPYRIGHT__ -__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__ -SCons checkpoint release 1.2.0.d20090223 is now available at the SCons -download page: - - http://www.scons.org/download.php - -This checkpoint provides early access to new features and fixes -scheduled for release in SCons 1.3.0. - - -IMPORTANT: - -- This checkpoint release notably contains completely new code for - detecting installed versions of Microsoft Visual C/C++. The new code - has been tested extensively, but it is possible that it will fail to - find installed versions on configurations that we don't have available - for testing. Please report *any* problems with support for Microsoft - Visual C/C++ as soon as possible so that we can diagnose and fix - them before releasing SCons 1.3.0. - -- Python versions prior to 2.4 are supported by SCons 1.2.0, but are - officially deprecated and will generate a disableable warning message. - We plan to remove support for these older versions in SCons 2.0. - If removing this support would cause a problem for you, please contact - the dev@scons.tigris.org mailing list. - -- The following deprecated features will still be supported in 1.3.0 - but will generate mandatory, non-disableable warnings: - - -- Support for Python versions 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. - -- The overrides= keyword argument to the Builder() call. - -- The scanner= keyword argument to the Builder() call. - -- The BuildDir() function and env.BuildDir() method. - -- The env.Copy() method. - -- The SourceSignatures() function and - env.SourceSignatures() method. - -- The TargetSignatures() function and - env.TargetSignatures() method. - -- The Sig module (now an unnused stub). - -- The --debug=dtree, --debug=stree and --debug=tree options. - -- The --debug=nomemoizer option. - -- The Options object and the related BoolOption(), EnumOption(), - ListOption(), PackageOption() and PathOption() functions. - - -WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE - -For a complete description of important changes since other recent -releases, see: - - http://www.scons.org/RELEASE.txt - -For a complete list of changes in all releases, see the official -change log: - - http://www.scons.org/CHANGES.txt - -We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora, -etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the -"public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names. - - -Here is a summary of all changes since the 1.1.0 release: - - -NEW FUNCTIONALITY - -- SCons now supports batch compilation of Visual Studio C/C++ source - files when the new $MSVC_BATCH construction variable is set. -- New reserved $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS, $UNCHANGED_SOURCES - and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS variables provide finer-grained control - over what source or targets to pass to a command line. -- A new batch_key= keyword argument to Action object creation supports - general batched builds. -- A new --warn=future-deprecated option provides advance warnings about - future deprecated features that still have warnings hidden by default. -- Visual Studio 8 project files can now be generated for 64-bit platforms. -- Visual Studio & Visual C++ now support TARGET_OS, TARGET_ARCH for - cross-compiling to x86, x86_64, ia64 - -CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY - -- $CCFLAGS is no longer included in the default definitions of $CXXFLAGS - for Visual C/C++ and MIPSpro C++ on SGI (to match other tools and - avoid flag duplication on C++ command lines). -- The $CCFLAGS variable is now passed to Visual C/C++ precompiled header - compilation. -- Scanning files encoded in utf-8 and utf-16 for implicit dependencies - is now supported. -- Linker tools modules now differentiate properly between the SharedLibrary - and LoadableModule Builders. -- Don't automatically try to build .pdf graphics files for .eps files in - \includegraphics{} calls in TeX/LaTeX files when building with the PDF - builder (and thus using pdflatex). -- Setting WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF=0 now disables --output-def when linking - under MinGW. -- AppendENVPath() and PrependENVPath() now interpret '#' in paths - relative to the top-level SConstruct directory. -- The message, "scons: Build interrupted." is no printed on error output, - not standard output. -- Quoted module names in SWIG source files are no handled correctly. -- Suffix-matching for scanners is now case-insensitive on Windows. -- Generated Visual Studio 8 project files now work better with - IntelliSense, by defining IncludeSearchPath and PreprocessorDefinitions. -- Unnecessary nested $( $) strings around $_LIBDIRFLAGS have been removed - from the default command lines for the Microsoft linker, the OS/2 - ilink linker and the Phar Lap linkloc linker. -- SCons now internally spells the Windows environment variables - "SystemDrive" and "SystemRoot" (instead of "SYSTEMDRIVE" and - "SYSTEMROOT.") -- Major revamp of Visual Studio/Visual C++ logic for locating and - configuring available version on the machine. - -FIXES - -- The $CHANGED_SOURCES variable now correctly includes files whose - corresponding targets don't exist. -- The $CHANGED_SOURCES variable now works correctly with the - --config=force option. -- $SOURCE and $SOURCES attributes now work even when there are no - sources specified in the Builder call. -- $SWIGOUTDIR values with spaces now work properly. -- Fix use of $SWIGOUTDIR when generating Python wrappers. -- Add $SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX and $SWIGVERSION construction variables. -- The Borland ilink linker now uses the -e option to specify the output - file name. -- SCons now correctly identifies shared libraries and shared object files - in a Repository. -- Implicit command dependencies are detected even when the first argument - is quoted on the command line. -- #include file names that contain escaped backslashes (\\) are now - handled correctly. -- Have AddOption() remove variables from the list of - seen-but-unknown variables (which are reported later). -- An option name and aliases can now be specified as a tuple. -- Textfile builder. -- Fix the -n option when used with VariantDir(duplicate=1) - and the variant directory doesn't already exist. -- Fix scanning of Unicode files for both UTF-16 endian flavors. -- Fix a TypeError on #include of file names with Unicode characters. -- Fix an exception if a null command-line argument is passed in. -- Evaluate Requires() prerequisites before a Node's direct children - (sources and dependencies). -- Remove redundant __metaclass__ initializations in Environment.py. -- Fix SWIG testing infrastructure to work on Mac OS X. -- Substfile builder. -- When reporting a target that SCons doesn't know how to make, - specify whether it's a File, Dir, etc. -- Add -recorder flag to Latex commands and updated internals to - use the output to find files TeX creates. This allows the MiKTeX - installations to find the created files -- Notify user of Latex errors that would get buried in the - Latex output -- Remove LATEXSUFFIXES from environments that don't initialize Tex. -- Add support for the glosaaries package for glossaries and acronyms -- Fix problem that pdftex, latex, and pdflatex tools by themselves did - not create the actions for bibtex, makeindex,... by creating them - and other environment settings in one routine called by all four - tex tools. -- Fix problem with filenames of sideeffects when the user changes - the name of the output file from the latex default - - - - -DOCUMENTATION - -- The TestCommon.shobj_prefix variable is now documented. -- Document that the msvc Tool module uses $PCH, $PCHSTOP and $PDB. -- The User's Guide has had numerous typos fixed and other corrections. -- Document that filenames with '.' as the first character are - ignored by Glob() by default (matching UNIX glob semantics). -- Correct the documentation of text returned by sconf.Result(). - - -Thanks to Stanislav Baranov, David Cornapeau, Robert P.J. Day, -Lukas Erlinghagen, Allan Erskine, Hartmut Goebel, Jared Grubb, -Mateusz Gruca, Jim Hunziker, Ted Johnson, Jason Kenney, Steven Knight, -Arve Knudsen, Rob Managan, Greg Noel, Gary Oberbrunner, Zia Sobhani, -Greg Spencer, Roberto de Vecchi, Ben Webb and Matthew Wesley, -Steven Knight for their contributions to this release. - - -On behalf of the SCons team, - - --WPD |